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Some lot owners are not getting emails and minutes from meetings. When they ask the secretary for them all she responds with is ‘They were sent out’.

I requested the cancellation of my email address so that information would be sent through hard copies, but the secretary won't accept this. Do you have any suggestions for how we can ensure the secretary is sending out the minutes in the proper way?

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When should the minutes from an AGM be approved? Is it at the next AGM or at a general committee meeting?

At our previous AGM, we spoke about, but did not come to a decision about raising levies by 65%. Where is this mentioned in the minutes?

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What is the procedure to have the minutes of an AGM amended? Is it by way of a motion for the agenda of the next AGM or can an amendment be proposed and seconded from the floor at the time of the next AGM? If it is the latter, is a vote necessary?

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A tenant has written to the strata committee about rules relating to hanging washing on the line. They insist the committee record their name and email contents in the minutes. Can the committee ignore the request and merely note in the minutes that "correspondence relating to hanging of washing was received, discussed and replied to"?

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I have purchased a top floor unit in Kogarah, NSW and noticed there is no smoke alarm installed. The unit was in a building built in 1974.

I emailed strata asking them to have a smoke alarm installed and their response was:

“As this is a requirement for within your own lot, you will need to organise to have the smoke alarms installed as soon as possible. Unfortunately, this is not a strata cost and one that you will need to cover.”

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The 2006 NSW legislation regarding smoke alarms falls short of the NSW Fire and Rescue's "encouragement" that interconnected alarms be installed.

Despite being very familiar with the NSW legislation I was unaware of NSW Fire & Rescue's "encouragement" until a new electrician mentioned it last Friday.

It would be great to receive some information about interconnected alarms for townhouses.